Both Sides of the Table
APRIL 12, 2017
The modern world is filled with constant distractions. Only those with maniacal focus on results and a willingness not to engage in every activity achieve extraordinary results. As executives we’re all seemingly accessible at any moment to anybody via email, Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn or Text. We are over-intro’d and at the same time under-resourced in terms of staff to handle the barrage of in-bound requests.
Berkonomics
APRIL 13, 2017
Your vision for success must be solid and flexible enough to pass several critical tests if it is to guide a business enterprise to greatness. Here in brief are ten tests for your successful vision. Try these on for size, and test yourself for attractiveness to the marketplace, to investors and to history. Ten tests for your successful vision. Is your market identifiable and accessible?
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socalTECH
APRIL 25, 2017
Los Angeles-based TeleSign , which uses phone calls and related information for mobile identity management, authentication, and other cloud services, has been acquired by Brussels-based BICS , in a deal worth $230M in cash plus unspecified earnout. BICS said that TeleSign has annual revenues of around $100M. As part of the deal, BICS said that TeleSign will continue to operate independently as a wholly-owned subsidiary of the company, led by current CEO Aled Miles.
L.A. Business Journal
APRIL 25, 2017
TeleSign Corp. of Marina del Rey, a developer of user authentication software, announced on Tuesday that it had agreed to be acquired for $230 million in cash by telecommunications company BICS of Belgium.
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InfoChachkie
APRIL 19, 2017
A version of this article previously appeared in Forbes. Andrew Fuller (left) and Jonas Bolduan I encourage my UC Santa Barbara entrepreneurial students to err […]. The post This Student Talked His Way Into Google Through Courageous Networking appeared first on John Greathouse.
SoCal CTO
APRIL 25, 2017
Here is the most recent version of an all too common email inquiry from a startup founder. I've removed the two words that described the market - otherwise this is verbatim. I'm working on a start up idea in the XXX market with my partner and we are currently looking for full stack developer to join us as a technical co-founder. We have been reading about the LA CTO Forum and we thought it would be a great place to find him/her.
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Berkonomics
APRIL 27, 2017
We’ve spent several weeks discussing your vision for success, and whether you could be the next Ford, Jobs or Musk. Now it’s time to make this more tangible, more real – by attaching personal goals to this vision we’ve created together for you. So, your vision tells the world what you want to be as you contemplate how you will change the world for the better.
socalTECH
APRIL 25, 2017
Irvine-based cybersecurity firm CrowdStrike appears to be the latest victim of unsubstantiated "facts" from the current White House administration, as President Trump inferred that the company, incorrectly, is owned by a "very rich Ukrainian". The company is actually backed by Google Capital, Rackspace, Accel Partners, and Warburg Pincus. CrowdStrike's founder is George Kurtz, who founded Irvine's Foundstone, and later sold it to McAfee.
L.A. Business Journal
APRIL 27, 2017
Elon Musk’s budding tunneling company, Boring Co., showed signs of progress on Thursday as an employee posted an image of what appears to be the company’s first boring machine.
SoCal Tech Calendar
APRIL 30, 2017
Saturday, May 6, 2017 -- ZipRecruiter Hackathon 2017. Can you help someone find their dream, future, or next job? Got a concept HR would love? Have an awesome idea you cant wait to share? ZipRecruiter is hosting its first-ever Hackathon, and we want to see what great minds can build when they come together to compete for some amazing prizes. Calling all programmers, designers, project managers, and more.sign up t today!
Startup Professionals Musings
APRIL 26, 2017
As a mentor for aspiring and early-stage entrepreneurs, I talk to a fair number who may have a great vision and a strong engineering background, but have a negative interest in the role of public speaking in business. In fact, they often claim to be part of the survey group that fears public speaking more than death, but I’m not sure how anyone could validate that survey.
Both Sides of the Table
APRIL 23, 2017
When you run a startup you’re always on borrowed time. You have cash in the bank, a monthly burn rate and a “cash out” date that few in the company truly comprehend. I’ve never met a founder who wasn’t acutely aware of his or her ticking time bomb and the sense that failure and humiliation is a real possibility. It’s why so few can really start a business from scratch.
Berkonomics
APRIL 20, 2017
Well, it’s a fair question. Note that none of these three famous innovators were inventors like Thomas Edison, but visionaries who find a new marketplace or niche – or how to reach the mass market in new ways. Leaders and companies that innovate new products, services and methods of delivery are the ones that stand out in a crowded business world, especially when attempting to gain recognition among the throngs of competitors visible on the web.
socalTECH
APRIL 12, 2017
With all the hand wringing in the tech industry over gender balance and equity, here's one company that apparently has no issue: LA-based Evite , the online invitations service. According to Evite, women currently make up 59 percent of its total employees, and 52 percent of its senior leadership roles, which includes its technical positions. Evite said that women head up its Product, Analytics and Data Infrastructure, Mobile Development, Testing and Advertising Operations, in addition to HR Lega
L.A. Business Journal
APRIL 28, 2017
Elon Musk revealed a conceptual video of a multistoried tunnel system under the city of Los Angeles, which he aims to build with his startup Boring Co., at a TED conference in Vancouver, Canada, on Friday.
SoCal Tech Calendar
APRIL 28, 2017
Thursday, May 4, 2017 -- Del Mar Electronics and Manufacturing Show.
Xconomy
APRIL 19, 2017
View the Slideshow It is a time of great transitions in the technology and business world. Key advances in areas like machine intelligence, agriculture, and healthcare seem poised to transform society—and everyday life. But it can be hard to keep up with the latest news in fields as disparate as cybersecurity, food tech, and cancer therapeutics—let alone understand the context around these developments and how they might relate to each other.
Startup Professionals Musings
APRIL 21, 2017
Every business needs repeatable processes to grow and thrive, but modern business processes need the right people to make them efficient and productive. In addition, today’s customers judge a company by perceived people relationships through social media, phone conversations, and sales experiences. The right people make productive processes, not the other way around.
Berkonomics
APRIL 6, 2017
I love absolute statements. And this is one of my favorites. You’re at the ignition stage of your newest business venture. Of course, you have a vision for what you will do to change the world. Let’s stress test that vision and sharpen it further to help insure your success. First, if your vision is limited and you will be happy with a successful local dry cleaning enterprise or small restaurant around the corner, you are not the target for this effort to help entrepreneurs build great busine
socalTECH
APRIL 19, 2017
Validated , a new startup which offers up a mobile app which lets consumers earn transportation credits for parking, ridesharing, mass transit, and more for dining and shopping at stores, is in an expansion to Southern California today. The company--which was just featured on Shark Tank last Friday--said it has launched in Los Angeles, San Diego, and Santa Monica, as part of a nationwide expansion beyond its home market in Seattle and Portland.
L.A. Business Journal
APRIL 26, 2017
Prominent seed-stage startup investor Chris Sacca announced in a blog post titled “Hanging up my spurs” on Wednesday that he has retired from venture capital investing.
SoCal Tech Calendar
APRIL 28, 2017
Thursday, May 4, 2017 -- LA CEOs presents: Drones Today, Tomorrow, The Future. This CEO and CFO only breakfast will focus on Drones and led by Dan Burton Founder and CEO of DroneBase, the world's leading drone services company with 15,000+ commercial drone flights in over 40 countries. Dan was an early user of military and commercial drone systems, serving as a Marine Infantry Officer in Iraq and Afghanistan and building / piloting commercial drones starting in 2012.
Xconomy
APRIL 18, 2017
Following a six-month trial of its digital mortgage platform, San Diego-based Approved has officially launched its Web-based software for home loan applications. In a recent statement , the 20-month-old startup also said it has raised $1 million in what co-founder and CEO Andy Taylor calls a “pre-seed round.” “Our goal is to create a platform [for both lenders and borrowers] that is just as frictionless as possible,” Taylor said at the downtown EvoNexus incubator, where he has been working
Startup Professionals Musings
APRIL 23, 2017
Everyone in the business world has heard of the old bestseller by Geoffrey A. Moore titled “ Crossing the Chasm ,” but most entrepreneurs have no idea how it relates to them. In fact, it’s all about the “focus” required to get early stage technology products across the deadly chasm from early adopters to mainstream customers. Most investors and startup professionals expand this concept of focus to apply to key issues of every aspect of strategic and tactical planning in a startup.
Tech.Co
APRIL 12, 2017
“We are pleased to invite you to attend LA Software Craftsmanship’s unConference event! What is an unConference? At an unConference, the topics on the agenda are decided by the attendees. The topics will be related to managing an engineering culture, dealing with current software trends and models, and creating a tightly knit LA tech community.
socalTECH
APRIL 24, 2017
A new app, JobFlare , developed by Los Angeles-based Criteria Corp. , is hoping to tap into the enthusiasm of consumers for games--which just might attract employers. According to Criteria, which has been offering up pre-employment testing services to employers since 2006, its new cam allows job seekers to play a set of six, 90-second brain games, which it says are "scientifically crafted" to test key talents and cognitive abilities.
L.A. Business Journal
APRIL 6, 2017
After receiving proposals from more than 2,600 individuals, downtown’s Hyperloop One has selected 11 U.S. regions to study financing and construction of potential Hyperloop systems.
SoCal Tech Calendar
APRIL 27, 2017
Tuesday, May 2, 2017 -- Developing International Relationships into Business Advantages. CONNECT. The world is becoming ever more closely connected and smart companies are building international relationships to take their business further, faster. Mexico and San Diego have built a strong, synergistic partnership based on proximity, shared goals to build a better economy, and building complementary assets.
Xconomy
APRIL 19, 2017
Think for a moment about the words and phrases that life science researchers and executives use on a daily basis. I’m talking about the seemingly simple phrases like “investigational drug,” “novel target,” “immunotherapy,” “clinical trial,” “in vitro,” and “therapeutic window.” There are hundreds more. Those of us who work in life sciences are comfortable with phrases like these in our daily lives.
Startup Professionals Musings
APRIL 28, 2017
Based on my own experience as a startup investor, and feedback from like-minded friends, we all get pitches for at least ten startup ideas for every one new business plan. New business founders need to remember that investors fund business implementations, not ideas. In fact, investors will tell you that ideas are worth nothing, outside the context of a real team with a real plan.
Tech.Co
APRIL 12, 2017
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socalTECH
APRIL 5, 2017
Diamond Bar-based LifeRay (www.liferay.com) is a company that not too many people have heard of, but which is used to run the websites for such well known organizations like Toyota, T-Mobile, Coach, Fujitsu, Allianz, and Sesame Street. And, even more impressively, it's now seeing more than $100M in annual revenues--without ever having taken any institutional or venture capital.
L.A. Business Journal
APRIL 21, 2017
Crown Castle International Corp. agreed last week to acquire downtown telecommunications firm Wilcon Operations in a $600 million deal with private equity firm Pamlico Capital.
SoCal Tech Calendar
APRIL 27, 2017
Wednesday, May 3, 2017 -- Del Mar Electronics and Manufacturing Show.
Xconomy
APRIL 12, 2017
Lymber was barely a year old when Mindbody (NASDAQ: MB ) announced recently that it acquired the San Diego mobile app developer. Lymber, named as a 2017 Xconomy San Diego startup to watch , has developed a technology platform that enables mobile users to book openings in fitness and wellness classes. “We’re basically an Expedia for fitness and wellness studios,” Lymber co-founder and CEO Doug Hecht told me by telephone after the Mindbody deal closed.
Startup Professionals Musings
APRIL 9, 2017
If you are an entrepreneur today, and not using social media to promote your business, you are missing out on a huge opportunity. But, contrary to what most people preach, it isn’t entirely free. Most social media outlets don’t require a subscription charge, but they certainly always require an investment, sometimes large, in people, in technology, your reputation, and your time.
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